Jason Isbell

Biography

Jason Isbell is an alt-country singer /songwriter /guitarist from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Best known for his years with the Drive-By Truckers where he played with his then wife, bassist Shonna Tucker. Isbell - who joined the Truckers in 2001 - left the band in early 2007 around the same time as his divorce from Tucker was finalized.

In addition to being a gifted songwriter, Isbell is regarded as an exceptional guitar player. His style is mostly in the alt-country genre, but is also infused with rock and blues elements. One of his most well-known songs is "Dress Blues," a tribute to a fallen soldier from the Iraq war.

Jason Isbell's debut solo album Sirens from the Ditch was released on July 10th, 2007, on New West Records. With his band The 400 Unit, he toured in support of this release in the US and Canada during the summer and fall of 2007. Both Isbell and the band released a follow-up album, Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit on February 17, 2009. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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Lyrics

A heart on the run
Keeps a hand on the gun
You can’t trust anyone
I was so sure
What I needed was more

I've heard love songs make a Georgia man cry
on the shoulder of somebody's Saturday night
Read the good book, studied it too
but nothing prepared me for living with you
Lock me up tight in these shackles I wear

This is how you make yourself vanish into nothing.
And this is how you make yourself worthy of the love she that she gave to you back when you didn't own a beautiful thing.
And this is how you make yourself call your mother.
And this is how you make yourself closer to your brother. Remember him back when he was small enough to help you sing.
You thought God was an architect, now you know He's something like a pipe bomb ready to blow. And everything you built it's all for show; goes up in flames.

She said Andy you're better than your past,
winked at me and drained her glass,
cross-legged on the barstool, like nobody sits anymore.
She said Andy you're taking me home,
but I knew she planned to sleep alone.

When I get home from work I'll call up all my friends
And we'll go bust up something beautiful we'll have to build again.
When I get home from work I'll wrestle off my clothes
And leave em right inside the front door 'cause nobody's home to know
You see a hammer finds a nail